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would

do

it

in

Hell,

Why

fhould not

you do

it now

?

that

which

you

think

they

would

do,

not with

a

few

flight

vain

ex-

prefíions,

do

you

do

now with

all

your

might.

Eightly,

Do this

:

fo

feel,

after

it

as to

defire

if

it

were

pof-

fble

that

you

might

bring

as much

glory

unto God,

as

he

would

have had

of

yo$t

if

he

fhould have damn'dyou

for

ever

;

this

is

an excellent frame

of fpirit though you do

not know it

,

but

though you

do

not, yet

you íhould put

your

felves

upon

fuch

a-kind

of

work,and God

may come

in

;

you cry

out for

par-

don

, but

never

cry

out for

Gods honour, O

what

(hall be-

come

ofthe honour

of

God

that

he hath loft

by

me,

and

the

difhonour I

have

brought

to

him, fay,

O

Lord

I

have difho-

noured thy

Name,

O

that.I

mightfo

honour

thy

Name

as

I

have

difhonoured

it

;

O

Lord thou mighteft

make

tip

thy honour

in

my eternal

damnation

;

but

O

Lord,

I

would

if

I

could

do

any thing that might

make up

that difhonour that

I

have.

brought

by

my fin,

if I

could

do any

thing that

thou mighteft

have any

honour in,

I

would do it

:

for

a

clofe,

I

íhall put

this for

a

confederation

to

you

;

whatfoever

you would

do

upon

any

ruppofition, fuppofe

your

danger

were

as

great

as

ever

it

was

in

all your lives

what

you would

do

then

do

it

now

;

you

muff

do

all

that

can be

done

by a

creature

:

Now

if

you would do

more

on fuch

a

fuppofition

as

this,

after

all

thofe fermons

you

have

heard

of

the

evil

of fin,and

now

of

the

great

bleffednefs

of

the

pardon of

fin,

if

you

do not

do what

a

creature

is

able

to do,How

can

you

look

for pardon of

fin in

the

face

of

God

?

and

therefore what

you

would do on any

fuch

fuppofition,

do

now, though thou fhouldeft not get pardon

fuppofe

fish

a

thing

as

if

thou

wert

now ready to

be

damn'd,

yet

is

it

not bet-

ter

to do

it,

than not

to do

it

?

Having

fpoken

of

thefe

gene-

ral things,

I

come now

more particularly

to the

other part

of the

Queftion,

What

is to

be

done

?

Firft,

`This is

to

be

done,be

fure

thou

tak,efß

off',thy

heart

from

all

other

imaginary

bleffednefs

;

certainly

there

is

no man

in

the

world

but

hath fomewhat

elfe his

heart

was

running

out

af-t.

ter

;

now thou mutt

get

off

thy heart

from

that

thing what-

ever it

be;

it maybe thy heart

was fet upon

friends,

or

upon,

pleafures

of

the

fiefh,

and

thou thoughteft thy

felf

happy'

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